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However, the origin of the term has, for more than two thousand years, been the object of an intense debate that is of interest to psychoanalysis.
In this case [[religion ]] is said to be a gathering together, an interiority, some scruple that prevents or delays action and entails the performance of certain rites.
The topic of [[religion ]] was initially examined by Freud and Breuer in the Studies on Hysteria (1895d), where hysteria could be considered a reaction to mental suffering associated with religious doubt.
Freud's first detailed examination of religion, "Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices," appeared in 1907.
The Freudian approach to religion has more to do with anthropology than with theology: Religion is a part of civilization and the discussion of its dogmas is less important than its hold on society and the individual.
Thus the character of Moses leading the people of Israel through the desert and out of Egypt in Exodus, a figure magnified by Freud, seems in the early twenty-first century to have more to do with myth than with history.
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